Use and Consequences of Participatory Gis in a Mexican Municipality: Applying a Multilevel Framework

Pozzebon, Marlei; Rozas, Sonia Tello; Delgado, Natalia Aguilar

doi:10.1590/s0034-759020150305

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“…Especially with regard to the question whether qualitative GIS is able to democratize knowledge production and decision making is still an ongoing debate (Byrne & Pickard, ). On the one hand, several researchers of public participation GIS believe that perceptions and management of places can be analyzed and realized in a more “bottom–up” way and that it empowers local communities (Pozzebon, Rozas, & Delgado, ). On the other hand, there are critical voices that argue that the technology alone cannot create equal production of knowledge (Dunn, ).…”

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Reviewing qualitative GIS research—Toward a wider usage of open‐source GIS and reproducible research practices

2019

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become an indispensable tool in all fields dealing with geographic data in academia as well as the public and private sector. After some initial reservations, human geography and other social sciences have also embraced GIS technologies especially by extending and adjusting the available data models for qualitative data. The result was coined qualitative GIS. Given the diversity and fragmentation of the research in which qualitative GIS have been applied, a comprehensive literature review is overdue. Therefore, we retrieved all articles that dealt with qualitative GIS from the ISI Web of Science. From the resulting 380 relevant manuscripts, we extracted study‐specific information and analyzed it by means of descriptive statistics, text mining, detrended correspondence analysis (DCA), and k‐means clustering. Our results reveal four major thematic domains within which qualitative GIS research takes place, namely, “conceptual contributions to qualitative GIS,” “theory and empiricism of public participation GIS,” “health, youth, and the urban environment,” and “ecosystem services, landscapes, and tourism”. Some of these trends are popular in specific regions (e.g., “ecosystem services, landscapes, and tourism” research in Australia). Furthermore, we found that a large body of studies lacks clear information on the used software packages and that the share of free open‐source GIS software is negligible. Overall, we would encourage more transparency, a wider use of open‐source software, and interdisciplinary collaboration to even further advance and promote qualitative GIS research. To put our recommendations into practice, we made the data used in this manuscript and the corresponding analysis publicly accessible (https://github.com/jannes‐m/qual_gis). To further facilitate the replication of our results, we exclusively used open‐source software, namely, R, leaflet, and PostgreSQL. These and other open‐source software packages, for example, Python and QGIS, might have the potential to fundamentally change the way to conduct qualitative GIS research. This is equally true for methods borrowed from other fields such as ordinations, cluster algorithms, and interactive web mapping, which might be promising tools in human geography and the social sciences.

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confidence: 99%

Reviewing qualitative GIS research—Toward a wider usage of open‐source GIS and reproducible research practices

2019

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“…Such a framework was previously used by Tan, Tan, Wang, and Sedera () in a multicase analysis research to understand how managers negotiate technologies and the negotiation outcomes and to ascertain assumptions between interdependent sides. Pozzebon, Tello‐Rozas, and Delgado () also adopted the framework to understand the use and consequences of the participatory geographic information system (“PGIS”) in a local Mexican community. Another example is Hino, Milan, da Cunha, and Meirelles (), who used the framework to investigate how cooperative business models adapt to a scenario based on the innovative use of technology.…”

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The use of ICT in the informal recycling sector: The Brazilian case of Relix

Coelho

Hino

Vahldick³

2019

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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This paper aims to understand the uses of technology in the informal recycling sector.We investigated the case of Relix, in northeast Brazil. The Relix project consists of cultural and educational interventions that promote recyclable waste picking and provides a mobile application to connect the local population to waste pickers.Methodological procedures included semistructured interviews with different groups of stakeholders. We adopted the Multilevel and pluralistic conceptual framework to analyze the groups according to the use of technology and perceptions in which they live based on context, process, and content. Results demonstrate that although the mobile application (app) can help waste pickers and the population to connect, it cannot single-handedly promote any meaningful changes in the lives of people.Additional actions should be taken. This study has two important contributions.First, it describes how the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can improve working conditions and create more innovative and equitable environments.Second, it enriches the theoretical discussion on the use of technology in social practice and the advances of applying a theoretical framework in the context of informal recycling. KEYWORDSBrazil, informal recycling sector, social inclusion, technology in practice, waste pickers

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“…Through PGIS, mapping exercises are carried out with local stakeholders to document local spatial knowledge (Baldwin et al, 2013). The mapping exercise can be carried out with individ-uals or small groups using semistructured or nonstructured interviews (see, e.g., Asare-Kyei et al, 2015;Baldwin et al, 2013;Pozzebon et al, 2015), during formal or informal meetings or focus groups (see, e.g., Bracken et al, 2016;Cinderby et al, 2008), using brainstorming sessions (see, e.g., McBride et al, 2017), or even by recording oral history (see, e.g., Cullen, 2015).…”

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Participatory GIS as a Tool for Stakeholder Engagement in Building Resilience to Sea Level Rise: A Demonstration Project

Yusuf¹,

Rawat²,

Considine³

et al. 2018

mar technol soc j

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This article describes a participatory geographical information system (PGIS) demonstration project used as part of the stakeholder engagement efforts undertaken by the Citizen Engagement Working Group of the Hampton Roads Sea Level Rise Preparedness and Resilience Intergovernmental Planning Pilot Project. The PGIS demonstration project was conducted in the Little Creek/Pretty Lake case study area in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern coastal Virginia. PGIS served as a deliberative and participatory mechanism to obtain local knowledge from residents about the location of valued assets within the community and locations challenged by increased flooding and sea level rise. The PGIS application, using the weTable tool, was found to be useful for soliciting and documenting local knowledge, such as by highlighting community assets and identifying community challenges. It was also found to be useful for facilitating community-wide discussion, visualizing the problem, and understanding the severity of sea level rise and flooding. The PGIS demonstration project showed how participatory mapping can directly engage residents in creating sociospatial data, build knowledge, and foster learning and deliberation in a complex issue such as resilience to flooding and sea level rise.

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Use and Consequences of Participatory Gis in a Mexican Municipality: Applying a Multilevel Framework

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Reviewing qualitative GIS research—Toward a wider usage of open‐source GIS and reproducible research practices

Reviewing qualitative GIS research—Toward a wider usage of open‐source GIS and reproducible research practices

The use of ICT in the informal recycling sector: The Brazilian case of Relix

Participatory GIS as a Tool for Stakeholder Engagement in Building Resilience to Sea Level Rise: A Demonstration Project

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